How to deploy Veritas Backup Exec on AWS Marketplace.Veritas Backup Exec provides simple, rapid, and secure offsite backup to AWS for your in-house virtual and physical environments and protects cloud-based workloads in AWS. Veritas Backup Exec helps...
How to deploy Veritas Backup Exec on Azure Marketplace.Veritas Backup Exec provides simple, rapid, and secure offsite backup to Azure for your on-premises environments and protects cloud-based workloads in Azure. Veritas Backup Exec helps customers r...
At its most basic, the upgrade procedure for Backup Exec is simply running installation media for the most recent version on an existing Backup Exec server. Backup Exec 15, 16 and 20 can be upgraded to Backup Exec 21 with this method. Article 1000443...
I have a Linux RHE / Ensim web server that has about 12Gb of data to back up. When I do a test run or even a real backup it shows that there is almost 50Gb "to be protected". My first thought was due to following symbolic or even hard links but it ap...
I just installed 9.0 and upgraded to 4454 sp1 and still can not get my drivers for the tape drive. It is a hp dlt vs80. What do I need to do? I am currently downloading 9.1 sp1 but it is going to take an hour. Is there anything else I can do and ...
I have a backup job that spans multiple tapes. After the job has completed and i check the Device and Media Information under the job log of a completed job, it only shows me the media label of the first tape used. This job spanned 3 tapes. Is th...
I am having an unusual problem with Backup Exec. I have a server with a large number of image files from our document imaging system. I am trying to backup the image files, and the backup shows as successful. However, when I attempt to restore any...
Hi.I have (had) a server that was both DC and Exchange 2000 server. The server crashed today due to HW failure and tomorrow morning I will start to restore the server. All the FSMO roles were moved to another DC a few weeks ago so thats okay. The ser...
Hi everyone, For the past few days we have been consistently getting bad media/unknown media errors whenever we try to run the inventory. Every backup we try is failing. This started all of a sudden. No matter what we do, it comes back with a bad med...
I am running Backup Exec 10.0. I have a Dell Powervault 122t DLT VS80. I did not see it in the Hardware Compatibility List. If it isn't there then what am I supposed to do? Any help would be great. Thank YouJason Roggentien
The backup rate slowed down to <12mb/min when before we were getting up to ~800mb/min. KB886903 Microsoft update was applied to the local server.I have re-installed the remote agent. Any suggestions?
I have BE 10.0 on one server. I have a total of 4 servers each with a tape drive. I would like to be able to backup all 4 servers, each to their own tape drive. Can I do this from one copy of BE or do I have to buy a copy for each server?Or do I need...
Running BE 9.0 with SP2 installed. Problem is after a failed BU the services "Backup Exec Device & media", "Backup Exec Job Engine", "Backup Exec Server", and "mssql$bkupexec" services stop and cannot be restarted without reinstalling BE 9.0. A res...
I have backupexec 9.1 running on Windows 2003 SBS, and want to use a USB2 AIT2 drive from Sony.The OS sees the device as a tape drive, but 9.1 does not find it when "add drive" is selected.Have I bought a drive that is not supported by 9.1?Is there a...
I understand that the linux agent for 10 is not supported on debian. I also understand many users have been able to get this agent to run on debian.I was wondering if anyone has documented the install process for this agent on debian?I was able to ge...
I have a recurring problem with one user's mailbox. Every few weeks, the backup comes up with a failure notice. It indicates that there is a file in use in the mailbox, but it's not in any visible folder. Somehow these files get stuck in this user's ...
I'm running BE 8.6 on a Windows 2003 Server box. It has an Overland LoaderXpress tape loader with a DLT 4000 tape drive. I've just backed up 160 Gb to 5 tapes, at about 250 Mb/s and it started a verify, but was running at about 12.5 Mb/s which will...
Is it possible to have veritas copy the files to another location without putting them in the bkf file? Here's whyWe recently purchased a hd to backup to overnight because we are going on two tapes and by the time we switch the tape in the morning, i...
What does "The connection to the Backup Exec database has been lost" mean? I have to relog on many times. What can I do to troubleshoot the problem?
There is a checkbox on the catelog tab that says:use storage media-based catelogswhen i read the help for this option it says:allow quick cateloging of tapesWe are using Iomega's Rev Drive. Will this option work on a Rev Drive or only for tape?
I installed the backup agent on Linux and worked fine for a few months. Just realized that the agent skips all directories in an export entry. It work just fine in another export. I put the agent in debug mode and saw that it went through the directo...
I am wondering if anyone knows if Tru64 is supported, I checked one compatibility matrix, but Tru64 (version 5.1B) is not listed, actually no version of Tru64 is there. Is it unsupported ?? I may need to find other software since at this point...
HI!I want to know what's the difference in backing up SQL using the regular backup vs SQL agent?I'm connecting the SQL server via remote agent and backing up the directory but is it really backing up? How would i restore if needed - i mean is it jus...
